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COPY LINK : https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/yump/B0BSKQ5ZDM One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences.Robert Sapolsky’ s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at base of human behavior, but that doesn’ t mean it doesn’ t
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One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences.Robert Sapolsky’ s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at base of human behavior, but that doesn’ t mean it doesn’ t
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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
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One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of
Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of
decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an
argument with profound consequences.Robert Sapolsky’s
Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why
they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not
grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the
physics and chemistry at base of human behavior, but that
doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Now, in Determined,
Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in
his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant
fantasy that there’s some separate self telling our biology
what to do.Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we
know about how consciousness works—the tight weave
between reason and emotion, and between stimulus and response,
in the moment and over a life. One by one, Sapolsky tackles all the
major arguments for free will and takes them out, cutting a path
through the thickets of chaos and complexity science and quantum
physics, as well as touching ground on some of the wilder shores of
philosophy. He shows us that the history of medicine is in no small
part the history of learning that fewer and fewer things are
somebody’s “fault” for example, for centuries
we thought seizures were a sign of demonic possession. Yet as he
acknowledges, it’s very hard, and at times impossible, to
uncouple from our zeal to judge others, and to judge ourselves.
Sapolsky applies the new understanding of life beyond free will to
some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality,
and living well together.By the end, Sapolsky argues that while
living our daily lives recognizing that we have no free will is going to
be monumentally difficult, doing so is not going to result in anarchy,
pointlessness and existential malaise. Instead, it will make for a
much more humane world.
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